New South Wales Consolidated Acts

FORESTRY ACT 1916 - SECT 11C

11C Power of the commission to patent and use inventions

(1) The commission shall have and shall be deemed always to have had power:

(a) to take an assignment from an officer or other employee appointed or employed under this Act of an invention made by such officer or other person in the course of his or her employment under this Act and to do and perform all acts and things necessary to obtain letters patent or the like or other protection for the invention in the Commonwealth of Australia or elsewhere,

(b) to take an assignment from such an officer or other employee of letters patent for any such invention and to do and perform all acts and things necessary to obtain letters patent or the like or other protection for the invention in countries outside the Commonwealth of Australia.

(2) Where the commission has been granted or become entitled to the benefit of letters patent for any such invention, the commission:

(a) shall have and may exercise in respect of the invention all the powers, privileges and authorities conferred by law upon patentees, including the power to produce, manufacture or sell or otherwise dispose of any article which is the subject of the invention or in which the invention is incorporated, and

(b) without limiting the generality of the foregoing, may grant licences for the use of the invention or franchises for the sale of any article which is the subject of the invention or in which the invention is incorporated and impose royalties or other fees in respect thereof.